"I was so excited and happy over winning those honors," says Ellie, a ninth-grader at Middlesex whose Pocos Fuzz Bar horse won the Amateur Go As You Please honors. "I've raised Fuzz from the time she was four months old."

Ellie started riding Pocus Fuzz Bar at the age of three and broke her at the age of 12.

"She knows me and I know her, and that's why we do so well at the shows," Ellie says.